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The Big Story: Orange meets saffron
US President Donald Trump will be in India on Monday and Tuesday. You can expect Indian TV news to go bonkers, offering breathless coverage of every single moment from the joint appearance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a stadium in Ahmedabad (where Trump said he was promised a turnout of 10 million people!) to the Trumps visiting the Taj in Agra.
Visits of American presidents are always a big deal in India – not least because Trump will only be the seventh (and fourth in a row) to make his way to the country. That continuity is a sign that Indo-US relations have stabilised over the past two decades, especially since the fall of the Soviet Union and India opening up its economy....
